Just after 3pm A bunch of blokes came into my work and told everyone to leave
Keys and car taken off me :(
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:25, 6 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Are they robbing it or closing it?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:26, Reply)

Liquidisation I think
No fucker at head office is picking up the phones
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:26, Reply)

erk
NOT GOOD
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:27, Reply)

Oh man that's awful, so sorry to hear it

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:28, Reply)

If it goes into recievership will I even get paid?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:29, Reply)

It's not guaranteed mate, sorry
Firm's creditors get first dibs I think
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:30, Reply)

yeah, this happened to a few friends during the dotcom
thing popping
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:31, Reply)

You should be able to claim it as a creditor
If they really have gone under then you need to get the claim in asap and you will be a priority creditor, they normally do individuals ahead of company
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:34, Reply)

employees are preferred creditors
so your salaries are at the top of the chain and get paid as a priority. but only if there are funds, and only pro-rata as to what is available, and it might take ages.

are you insured? get onto your insurer pdq if so.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:39, Reply)

preferred creditors thats the word I was after

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:40, Reply)

are you sure it's not some elaborate scam
some dudes are robbing you and you let them
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:30, Reply)

No one at head office is answering
All the directors mobiles are off
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:32, Reply)

surely there has to be some kind of notice
or explanation of what's happening?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:33, Reply)

I would have thought the board would have know about it for a while
But they aint going to let rumours fly around are they?
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:36, Reply)

no, but I think they probably should
say something now
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:37, Reply)

how many regional offices are there?
have you tried contacting anyone at those branches?
Did you get the details of the people that came in?
Did you check any information they gave you? ID etc.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:38, Reply)

2, yes, yes and I'm not a complete prick leagal notices were shown I don't run the place so I'm not sure of the full in's and outs
The Regional director was in with them didn't really seem like a good time to go in with my size 10's
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:41, Reply)

Fair enough I wasnt mocking in that post
Have you heard anything from the other branch,
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:43, Reply)

Hahahaha, what a bunch of cunts.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:39, Reply)

To be fair it would be a fucking hilarious scam

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:36, Reply)

Woah.
Shit times, harters :(
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:42, Reply)

Yikes!! Sorry to hear that :/
Similar thing happened to me with a mate who I worked with in Manc.
Meanwhile she had moved back up North, started a new company and not told me.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:57, Reply)

What?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:26, Reply)

:( I am truely worried Monce

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:27, Reply)

Dont you get some kind of warning when this kind of stuff happens?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:28, Reply)

Nope, nothing, nadda, not even a rumour

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:28, Reply)

No chance
They don't want to risk people walking/stealing databases etc
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:29, Reply)

I already have a pre-emptive strike on that done

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:31, Reply)

You've nicked HH's database?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:44, Reply)

^this^
I didn't even get chance to delete all the incriminating stuff on my hard drive
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:31, Reply)

when you say 'incriminating' what do you mean?
Pissing about on here, or fraud? Nonce pics?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:39, Reply)

It will be nonce pics, you can count on it

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:41, Reply)

I've always suspected he was a nonce.
Fucking noncecheese.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:42, Reply)

So that's why he gazzed me asking for pics of my kids

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:44, Reply)

so why did you send me the pics as well
I mean thanks an all that but I hadn't asked for them
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:45, Reply)

I'm proud of how sexy they are

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:47, Reply)

You should be

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:48, Reply)

Emails to his ex

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:41, Reply)

Sorry I just went and got some beer, Nothing sexual or noncey far worse
The pissing around on here documents are small fish, I’m talking about corporate espionage, backhander lists, dirt on some people that can’t be bribed, I’m not proud of some of the things I do to obtain the large contracts but it’s a dog eat dog world in multi-national construction contracting.
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:50, Reply)

These sound incriminating for other people rather than you, no?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)

Monce some of what I do is criminal in the eyes of the business world and the law of course

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:57, Reply)

Oops
See Bonzo's points below. They will wipe the PCs and flog them.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:04, Reply)

Bribary, backhanders and corporate espionage what do you think?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:06, Reply)

If the firm's been shut down due to being busted for illegal activity then you're in the shit
but if they've gone bust who is going to pay someone to sit reading eveyone's documents? It would take months and they've a duty to get as much cash as quickly as possible. You're fine.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:10, Reply)

I think it's the main contracting side that caused this
nothing to do with my side
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:13, Reply)

I think you work at Shawshank.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:14, Reply)

Should you be posting this?!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:25, Reply)

As long as I don't mention the Company I should be ok, yeah?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 18:20, Reply)

If it is any consolation
and assuming its a liquidation firm that are locking up the shop, they wont care about anything on the HD's as they will sell them all to a recycling firm either for wiping or destruction... ICO regulations means that the information "should" be destroyed
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:58, Reply)

I should add
they don't actually care about the information it is the physical value of the hardware etc.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:58, Reply)

It's OK - wikinonces will have already published it to the Guardian.

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:47, Reply)

^ this ^
my brother and his wife are both insolvency practitioners. the employees are the last to know. otherwise they'd all fuck off and/or take stuff.

it sucks.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:40, Reply)

Especially if, like Harters, you've got a car.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:42, Reply)

everything from clients to photocopy paper goes up for grabs

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:43, Reply)

When Lehmann went tits up
one of my friend's teams was pimped around the other investment banks like a 10 dollar whore. It was extremely funny. She reckoned she was technically was employed by Lehmann, Barclays Capital, Nomura and then Jefferies within 24 hours. That's a fuck of a CV.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:46, Reply)

yep
my friend nick is a banker, and he said that all he could see from his window, day after day, was a stream of people leaving. his bf told him to set up a stand in the square selling cardboard boxes...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:48, Reply)

I was watching something the other day about staff who worked for the Thompson directory.
The staff were called to head office, told the company was in administration and then told to leave their car-keys behind and to make their own way home.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:44, Reply)

Hang on, that was Alan Partridge

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:45, Reply)

Aha

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:46, Reply)

I loaded my personal shit in the boot then drove home, taking this prick with me,
The look on his face as he drove my Lexus away was akin to a sunshine coach passenger with a lollipop :(
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 18:31, Reply)

As long as he didn't take your phone. That's the important thing.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:34, Reply)

as I'm office based most of the time I use my own mobile
Fuck them Blackberries
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:52, Reply)

Did it go like this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4W0qUaM9xQ
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:35, Reply)

bunch of blokes sounds 'not very official' - did they have any sort of identification about them?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:38, Reply)

I'd assume they did.
Directors not answering cellphones doesn't sound good.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:43, Reply)

they're all in the liquidator's pocket

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:55, Reply)

The liquidators prolly took their phones

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:57, Reply)

isn't that what i said?!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:58, Reply)

Same shit happened here when Jessops went tits up a few years back.
Area manager turned up in their flagship store in town, everyone had 20 mins to fuck off. Job centre next working day. Bastard. My advice is to nick everything you can.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:42, Reply)

this^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:43, Reply)

did you see the ones who were posting live updates on twitter
and sticking "save our jobs" signs in the windows?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-21030467
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)

The difference is a bunch of kids working in shops have little to lose
Poor old harters has ( for now) a wife and kids to look after
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:58, Reply)

hence my high street rant point
there will be no jobs for people working in shops if people continue spunking money up tesco's arse and online without making the effort to spread it a bit more evenly!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 16:59, Reply)

Poor old tesco get such a bad rap for being successful

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:00, Reply)

they can act like total cunts
but mostly let them get on with being successful. however, don't buy your camera there because it's £5 cheaper, which is fuck-all, and then whine because your high street is dead and there's nowhere to print your pictures or employ your scrotey kids... buy your food at tesco and your camera at jessops, as it should be!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:01, Reply)

So really it's people's fault

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:02, Reply)

yes
it's all people's faults. people are cunts!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:03, Reply)

jessops is gone
and as an ex employee of those cunts, they probably deserved it. Go to independent camera shops, they know their stuff
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:05, Reply)

we used to have a lovely one in wilmslow
it's now a pizza express. people just don't value the right things :(
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:07, Reply)

How often to do you buy a camera.
And how often do you pay for pizza?

I think the answer to this might explain the closure of the Wilmslow camera exchange.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:10, Reply)

i bought two cameras from there
and one pizza

so rap about that, rapboy!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:58, Reply)

RS I need cheering up
Send me a pic of your red beaver, try to be a bit more inventive than Lusty
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 17:59, Reply)

Fuck you HH.
I showed you two pairs of tits you ungrateful prick.
( wanderlust, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 18:02, Reply)

Yeah, well my arm is aching from that, now I need a good laugh

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 18:03, Reply)

Oh right, ok then x

( wanderlust, Fri 13 Sep 2013, 18:06, Reply)